John Kroger

John Richard Kroger
16th Attorney General of Oregon
In office January 5, 2009 – June 29, 2012
Governor	Ted Kulongoski John Kitzhaber
Preceded by	Hardy Myers
Succeeded by	Ellen Rosenblum
Personal details
Born	1966 (age 50–51)
Political party	Democratic
Profession	Assistant United States Attorney, Law Professor

John Richington Kroger (born 1966) is the president of Reed College. He served as Attorney General for the U.S. state of Oregon from 2009 to 2012. Prior to being elected in 2008, he had earlier served in the Marine Corps, was an Assistant United States Attorney in New York, and a law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland. He resigned as Attorney General effective June 29, 2012.

Kroger was born in 1966 in Ohio, growing up in Indiana and then Texas. He served in a FORECON unit in the United States Marine Corps after having joined in 1983 at the age of 17. During that time Kroger spent about five months on an assault carrier in the Pacific. He also underwent jungle warfare training in Panama. While he was in boot camp the United States invaded Grenada. Shortly thereafter Kroger volunteered to go to Lebanon, but in the aftermath of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing attack, President Ronald Reagan withdrew U.S. forces before Kroger's unit was sent in.

He left the Marines in 1986, entered Yale College and studied philosophy, graduating in 1990. Following graduation he moved to Washington, D.C., becoming a legislative assistant to then-Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Tom Foley (D–WA-5) and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

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